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Role UserTesting Plays With Your Agile Development Team

What do you think the #1 reason cited by teams to not test their products with real users during development is?

Not suprisingly, it’s that user testing takes too much time.

And that’s fair, because it requires:

Recruiting users

Setting up labs

Moderating sessions

And ultimately getting that user feedback

This can take days or even weeks.

And that simply doesn’t make sense for agile teams.

The solution: Remote user testing

Skip in-lab testing and opt for remote user testing instead

With remote user testing, you can get video recordings (with audio) of real people from your target market as they use any website, mobile app, or prototype.

Users speak their thoughts out loud while they complete tasks which you specify, such as, “Select an item and add it to your cart.”

And perfect for agile teams which need to move fast…

You can recruit your exact target audience and get feedback within an hour.

This means your team can test a new design or user flow within a single Sprint.

As a result, this should validate that your team has made the right decision as the feature is built.

The process can start with sketched concepts and extend through wireframes, prototypes, and live code.

So use a tool such as UserTesting in order to validate your product decisions before investing in development…

And prevent your team from building products and features that users don’t want!

Run parallel design and development Sprints

Many leading companies find that the most effective way to incorporate user tests into their agile development cycle is to have their design team run a design Sprint parallel to their development team.

The purpose of the design Sprint is to:

Identify problems through user research.

Validate solutions through iterative testing.

Prepare user stories for the Product Owner to prioritize in time for the Iteration Planning Meeting (Backlog Review).

That way, while your engineers are writing code for their current iteration, your design team is identifying the problems and validating the solutions for your developers to work on in their next iteration.

Assign top developer talent quickly and securely

With a deep understanding of your development tasks, TARA machine learning can instantaneously assign external contractors or internal developers based on your project’s needs.

Here’s what one of TARA clients at Cisco Systems had to say about their experience working with TARA developers…

“We were pleasantly surprised at how rapidly TARA was able to deliver on their promise. We required developers familiar with our existing API, and the platform found two devs and assigned them within a few hours! I continuously received updates throughout the process, and the finished product matched our spec.”Joseph Fu, Spark/Tropo API Head of Business Development, Cisco Systems

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